Name: I Became a Star After Reviving the Arts in the Interstellar Era
Author: Lu Jiang

Synopsis

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Classified as a second-grade invalid with a mental strength of only 10, Xie Jiuxing is so poor he can barely scrape by, with pockets emptier than his face. Forget about finding his sworn enemy and lifesaving merfolk, he can hardly afford even the cheapest nutritional supplements.

The good news is, he can finally log onto the Star Network and do some grunt work.

[The Ninth Star Sector Food Competition preliminary auditions are about to begin! Interested contestants can register for free!]

[All ingredients provided by the organizers!]

[Those who pass the auditions will receive a preliminary-round reward of 3,000 star coins!]

Xie Jiuxing stared fixedly at the three words [free], [ingredients], and [reward], tears nearly dripping from the corners of his mouth.

For the free ingredients, he was in!

[Fish Head with Chopped Chili] [Spicy Rabbit Heads] [Dry Pot Duck Heads]

Though he only managed to snag scraps, Xie Jiuxing's dishes were so overwhelmingly delicious that the judges could barely tear themselves away. He swept the entire Ninth Star Sector and emerged as a sensational new culinary star.

Only then did Xie Jiuxing learn that in the vast Ninth Star Sector, hardly anyone knew how to cook Chinese cuisine! Across all nine star sectors of the Galactic Human Alliance, the popular cuisines were all Sali-style and Silvermoon-style, representing the civilizations of the Sali Flying Dragon and the Silvermoon Merfolk!

It wasn't just food culture. Humanities, history, music, painting, and film, all part of a civilization's soft power, had been invaded on every front. Humans talked constantly about Sali-style and Silvermoon-style culture, even Ge-style and Ti-style, while turning a blind eye to the treasures of their own native civilization!

Born into the highly advanced cultivation civilization of Huaxia, Xie Jiuxing was a genius cultivator who excelled at every refinement of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and knew every art of alchemy and talisman drawing. Gritting his teeth, he rolled up his sleeves and set about a cultural renaissance.

Everyone, step aside! Let Brother Xie teach you what cultural confidence means!

Blue Star civilization was too backward, and there was no market for classical music?

With his piece [Phoenix Bird Tianzhai], Xie Jiuxing sparked a classical music craze!

Everyone only cared about Ocalan painting, while other races were told to stand aside?

Xie Jiuxing swept his brush across the page, recreating the grandeur of human civilization with his ink painting [Prosperous Chang'an]!

The Star Alliance Film Festival came up empty every year, and human films could not even get into the main competition?

Xie Jiuxing's The Immortal Way showed every race how it was done!

The Galactic Humans were too weak to fight, never making it into the Star Wars finals?

Watch Xie Jiuxing cleave open the heavens with one sword and sweep aside the young talents of every race!

Before the finals began, the Sali prince, adored throughout the galaxy, appeared at the livestream venue. Before the audience recognized him, he had been waiting in line for Xie Jiuxing's autograph.

The Silvermoon Pearl, known as the Singer of the Star River, personally invited Xie Jiuxing to her private coming-of-age concert. Even ordinary Alliance governors were not granted such an honor.

As Xie Jiuxing became a sensation, Huaxia style and Blue Star style gradually became the keys to attracting traffic. Countless people, both within and beyond the human civilization, rushed to imitate them. Human civilization went from being disparaged as a cultural desert to being praised as a cultural treasure, and all it took was one Xie Jiuxing.

At the Galaxy Medal award ceremony, Xie Jiuxing held up the Blue Star trophy. His bright eyes sparkled and his smile shone with confidence as he delivered his acceptance speech, word by word: "Humanity should never forget its own civilization, just as the Sali people will never forget the sky, and the Silvermoon people will never forget the ocean."

CP: Merfolk seme x Xie Jiuxing uke, each other's first love, mutual pining

Content warnings

1. A wish-fulfillment, feel-good silly story. If this isn't your thing, please don't force yourself to read it~

2. All scientific theories are made up. Please don't scrutinize them; the author knows nothing.

3. I'm a fan of old-school melodramatic dog-blood stories and don't know much about modern taboos. If I hit a nerve, that's my fault. I'll add warnings as needed.

4. The author often revises the story.

5. That's all for now~

Upcoming Stories

After Becoming a Cannon-Fodder, I Lived Like a Slacker [Book Transmigration]

1. Qin Zhen transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder man destined to have his whole family executed. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself facing the tyrant's blood-red, brutal gaze. He is dressed in black-and-red wedding robes, and a few drops of blood stain the twelve strands of white jade beads hanging from his crown. Blood has splattered across his exquisitely handsome, almost bewitching face, making him look even more terrifying.

"Hic!"

While the palace was full of attendants holding their breath in terror, Qin Zhen, collapsed on the floor, suddenly let out a loud, frightened hiccup. Then he couldn't stop, hiccuping again and again with the force of a rooster heralding dawn.

Thanks to this mortifying moment, when the tyrant's bloodied sword tip was about to slice his throat, Qin Zhen felt not only fear but also a sense of relief, as if liberation in his next life were already at hand.

But the tyrant didn't kill him. Not only that, he bestowed on him a resounding title: Lord Changming.

Qin Zhen: "..."

Don't think I can't tell you're mocking me just because you're being subtle, you dog emperor!

2. Having narrowly escaped death, Qin Zhen starts sorting out the family situation of the body he's in. He's the youngest son of an Imperial Tutor who served three reigns; his two older brothers are both upright officials, and he himself is a gifted and elegant scholar who placed third in the imperial examination. Unfortunately, before he could receive an appointment, the late emperor arranged his marriage to the crown prince, simply because the Director of the Imperial Observatory predicted that he was born with the destiny of a phoenix and could bring auspicious fortune to the dynasty.

Qin Zhen: Screw your feudal superstition!

The original owner's close friend, Prince Jing, tries to talk him into following the original owner's doomed path with a silver tongue. Qin Zhen only wants to be a peaceful slacker, and he wants nothing more than to drag Prince Jing straight to Qianyuan Hall so the dog emperor can snap the culprit's neck. Unfortunately, Prince Jing is far too strong, so Qin Zhen gives up. In the dead of night, clutching the dagger Prince Jing gave him, he kneels on his bed and tearfully explains everything to the dog emperor: I swear, all I want is to live like a slacker, damn it!

The dog emperor's face is dark and inscrutable. After a long moment, he flicks a finger and snaps the dagger in two. As Qin Zhen looks at him as if he's Godzilla, the emperor strokes his salted-fish tail. His scarlet lips are as alluring as spring waters. "All right, I know you're good."

The frightened salted fish grabs the hand that has made its way to his neck. If you know I'm good, then stop it! Don't you know you could snap a salted fish's neck with your grip?

CP: A uke who's a cowardly salted fish on the outside and a foul-mouthed menace on the inside x a sinister emperor seme who can snap people's necks